Variability of the coupling of blood flow and oxygen metabolism responses in the brain: A problem for interpreting BOLD studies but potentially a new window on the underlying neural activity

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 8 JUN, 2014, Pages

  Buxton, Richard B ^a   Griffeth, Valerie E M ^a   Simon, Aaron B ^a   Moradi, Farshad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD); Cerebral blood flow (CBF); Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Inhibitory excitatory neural activity

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; CEREBRAL METABOLIC RATE OF OXYGEN; ENERGY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN;

EID: 84905046765     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00139     Document Type: Article

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